Even in the very year of Queen Victoria’s accession, Money Wigram launched for the Australian trade the 293-ton _Emu_, for this was beginning to open as an important lane of commerce. And in that same year the yard built such different ships as the 461-ton whaler _Active_ and the 621-ton steamer _Neptune_, the latter for the General Steam Navigation Company. It was a couple of years later that they launched the 852-ton _Earl of Hardwicke_ for Richard Green. This ship was originally fitted with paddles and 100-horse-power engines to be used in calms, but they were found unsuitable and removed in the following year. And then in 1839 they launched the _Owen Glendower_, which was such a splendid sailing ship that foreign merchantmen used to salute her with the respect as for a man-of-war. She was a sister ship of the _Earl of Hardwicke_. In that year, too, they built the Opium clipper _Moa_ for Jardine, Mattheson & Co., though we shall come to the clipper ships presently. Three years later the Blackwall yard launched the two magnificent 1223-ton flush-decked, frigate-built sister ships _Queen_ and _Prince of Wales_, as well as the 449-ton _Sylph_. [Illustration: [_By courtesy Messrs. T. H. Parker._ AUXILIARY S.S. “KENT.” 2,300 tons. G. Fairles Gibbs, Commander. Built and owned by Money Wigram & Sons. About 1876.] And here we come to another severing of olden ties, for this was the last ship which was ever built by the firm of Green, Wigrams & Green. In the following year the partnership expired, a wall was built through the yard, and the western portion was made over to Money Wigram & Sons, whilst the eastern half became the property of Richard and Henry Green. Sentimentally it seemed a pity that after all those years the separation should have taken place; but, as already foreshadowed, it was bound to come, owing to the difference in interests. The firm had become _individually_ interested in shipowning, and not collectively. Thus Wigram never owned so large a fleet as Green, and where a firm is divided against itself obviously it must come to an end before long. Richard Green and Henry Green went on building and increasing their ownership until the discovery of gold in Australia, when they launched many ships to cope with the rush. Richard Green did not die until 1863, and just before his death one of his ships had made a voyage to China. In his life he did much to improve the Mercantile Marine, and it was he who was the chief mover and first chairman of what was originally known as the Thames Marine Officers’ Training Ship, better known to-day as H.M.S. _Worcester_. In the year 1922 this ship celebrated its sixtieth anniversary, and during its existence has been able to turn out 3000 officers for the Mercantile Marine, of whom so many distinguished themselves during the Great War. Thus, directly through the Blackwall yard there is an intimate connection between the merchant ships of the time of Queen Elizabeth and those liners of to-day.